In WW2, wireless engineer Will meets Austrian refugee Elsa and at last his life seems to make sense. After the couple's home is bombed, Will awakes from the wreckage to find himself alone. No one has heard of Elsa. 70 years later, social worker Laura's new case is an isolated old man. A man who insists his wife vanished many years before. Everyone thinks he's suffering dementia. But Laura begins to suspect otherwise. The perfect uplifting, heart-warming, and life-affirming read.